Main area Consultant Grade NHS Medical & Dental: Consultant Contract Permanent Hours Full time - 10 sessions per week (DCC 7.5; SPA 2.5) Job ref 350-MED7061797
Employer Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust Employer type NHS Site Hartley Hospital Town Southport Salary £105,504 - £139,882 per annum, plus 10% R&R (non contractual) and on call Salary period Yearly Closing 03/05/2025 23:59
Consultant Psychiatrist – Southport and Formby CMHT
NHS Medical & Dental: Consultant
Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust celebrates diversity and promotes equal opportunities; we are committed to challenging and eliminating racism and other forms of discrimination and advancing and promoting equality of opportunity in the provision of services and creating an inclusive environment for all employees. We believe that everyone has the right to be treated with dignity and respect.
We take positive action to support disadvantaged groups and also particularly encourage applications from ethnic minorities, disabled and LGBTQIA+ people that are under-represented in our workforce. Furthermore we welcome applications from reservists and ex-armed forces personnel as we recognise the benefits of the values, skills, training and experience that they bring to their work with us. We encourage all applicants to share their equality information with us.
Job overview
The Trust is seeking a consultant psychiatrist to join Southport & Formby CMHT based at the North Sefton Hub. New referrals average approximately 4 per week.
Clinics will be used flexibly for all patients. Most new to service assessments are carried out by team trainee medics, the post-holder will provide supervision as required for such assessments.
The average numbers of CTO patients is 6-8. While primarily responsible for delivering a quality clinical service, the consultant CMHT psychiatrist is also expected to be actively involved in the strategic development of the team as part of wider community mental health services of the Local Division.
As part of the community transformation program, the team are working towards the delivery of intervention-based care, with fully developed a functional pathway already, such as the depot pathway. The consultant will work with the team to provide timely reviews for patients.
The Consultant will operate a consultation, formal supervision & advice model with this group rather than have direct & continuing open episodes. Junior doctor resources are allocated by the Medical Education department, the Post Holder will be supported to develop Educational & Clinical Supervisor Responsibilities for the junior trainee.
The post holder will be included in the on-call rota for Liverpool (currently 1 in 5). There is a 1% supplement available for the on-call banding.
Main duties of the job
This is a 10 session post which is split into 7.5 sessions for Direct Clinical Care & 2.5 sessions for Supporting Professional Activities.
Clinical- Consultant psychiatrist responsibility for their CMHT caseload. To supervise & support team members who carry out assessments of patients referred to the team. To carry out comprehensive psychiatric assessments & provide treatment for patients. Supporting staff to manage psychiatric emergencies. To conduct patient reviews & lead Multidisciplinary reviews, patient reviews & multi-professional meetings. To be the responsible clinician & carry out duties in accordance with the code of practice. To carry out comprehensive Risk Assessments & participate in Trust’s risk management processes.
Liaison- Maintain high level of effective communication with other parts of the Mental health service across the Trust. Liaison with families, aspects of the Criminal Justice System. Maintain effective communication with Access services, community mental health teams, & primary care.
Governance-Programmed activity time will allow for management & audit of the service & reporting of audit programmes.Regular stakeholder meetings if required.Partnership Forums involving service user representatives & advocacy.Involvement with critical/serious reporting & response.Protocol development.Attendance at twice monthly Consultants meetings.
Training- Direct supervision of junior medical staff. Role in in-house MDT training / education sessions.
Working for our organisation
Mersey Care is one of the largest trusts providing physical health and mental health services in the North West, serving more than 1.4 million people across our region and are also commissioned for services that cover the North West, North Wales and the Midlands.
We offer specialist inpatient and community services that support physical and mental health and specialist inpatient mental health, learning disability, addiction and brain injury services. Mersey Care is one of only three trusts in the UK that offer high secure mental health facilities.
At the heart of all we do is our commitment to ‘perfect care’ – care that is safe, effective, positively experienced, timely, equitable and efficient. We support our staff to do the best job they can and work alongside service users, their families, and carers to design and develop future services together. We’re currently delivering a programme of organisational and service transformation to significantly improve the quality of the services we provide and safely reduce cost as we do so.
Flexible working requests will be considered for all roles.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
This is a 10 session post which is split into 7.5 sessions for Direct Clinical Care and 2.5 sessions for Supporting Professional Activities.
Clinical:
* Consultant psychiatrist responsibility for their CMHT caseload.
* To supervise and support team members who carry out assessments of patients referred to the team.
* To carry out comprehensive psychiatric assessments and provide treatment for patients.
* Supporting staff to manage psychiatric emergencies.
* To conduct patient reviews and lead Multidisciplinary reviews, patient reviews and multi-professional meetings.
* To be the responsible clinician for the purposes of the Mental Health Act 1983 (amended 2007) and carry out duties in accordance with the code of practice.
* To carry out comprehensive Risk Assessments and participate in Trust’s risk management processes such as Health Risk Assessment and Management Meetings (H-RAMM) and Multi Agency Public Protection Arrangement (MAPPA) Meetings.
* To provide medical leadership to the team.
* Maintain high level of effective communication with other parts of the Mental health service across the Trust.
* Liaison with families / carers
* Liaison with aspects of the Criminal Justice System regarding patients.
* Liaising with other stakeholders and interested parties.
* The post holder will be expected to maintain effective communication with Access services, community mental health teams, and primary care.
Governance:
* Programmed activity time will allow for management and audit of the service and reporting of audit programmes.
* Regular stakeholder meetings if required.
* Partnership Forums involving service user representatives and advocacy.
* Involvement with critical incident / serious untoward incident reporting and response
* Attendance at twice monthly Consultants meetings.
Training:
* Direct supervision of junior medical staff
* Role in in-house MDT training / education sessions
* Education of other services / professions with relation to CMHT (including all stakeholders)
* Participation in Research and Clinical Audit
* Work with CMHT transformation within the Trust.
The post holder will regularly attend the Tuesday morning Virtual postgraduate programme as part of their weekly SPA sessions. This is well attended by consultants and is a lively meeting. It includes case conferences, journal presentations, mandatory training slots and guest speakers.
The Consultant Group has one lunchtime continuing professional development meeting each month. This involves presentations by invited speakers on topics agreed by the Consultant group, or discussions of clinical cases primarily intended for peer support.
The post holder will be included in the daily on-call rota for South Liverpool. There is usually always a higher trainee ST4-6 first on call at night. On-call availability supplement is 1% - Band B low frequency, low intensity and has been consistent for many years. The rota is currently shared with approximately 15FTE colleagues, from adult, addictions and learning disability services.
Person specification
Qualifications
* MB BS or equivalent medical qualification.
* Qualification or higher degree in medical education, clinical research or management.
* Additional clinical qualifications.
* Fully registered with the GMC with a licence to practise at the time of appointment.
* Included on the GMC Specialist Register OR within six months.
* Approved clinician status OR able to achieve within 3 months of appointment
* Approved under S12 OR able to achieve with 3 months of appointment
* In good standing with GMC with respect to warning and conditions on practice
Transport
* Holds and will use valid UK driving licence OR provides evidence of proposed alternative.
* Non Drivers due to disability will be supported via access to work
Clinical Skills, Knowledge and Experience
* Excellent knowledge in specialty of General Adult Psychiatry
* Excellent clinical skills using bio-psycho-social perspective and wide medical knowledge
* Excellent oral and written communication skills in English
* Able to manage clinical complexity and uncertainty
* Makes decisions based on evidence and experience including the contribution of others
* Wide range of specialist and sub-specialist experience relevant to post within NHS or comparable service
Academic Skills and Lifelong Learning
* Able to meet duties under MHA and MCA
* Ability to work constructively in and to lead a multidisciplinary team
* Able to deliver undergraduate or postgraduate teaching and training
* Participated in continuous professional development
* Participated in research or service evaluation
* Evidence of achievement in education, research
* Has actively participated in clinical audit
* Able to plan and deliver undergraduate and postgraduate teaching and training relevant to this Post
* Reflected on purpose of CPD undertaken
* Experienced in clinical research and / or service evaluation.
* Audit and service improvement: awards, prizes, presentations and publications
* Has led clinical audits leading to service change
Only those applicants who demonstrate clearly how they meet our person specification will be shortlisted for interview.
As a Disability Confident Employer, we offer a guaranteed interview scheme for applicants who consider themselves to be disabled who meet the minimum (essential) criteria for the role in the person specification. If you would like your application to be considered under the Trust’s guaranteed interview scheme you can indicate this in the personal information section of your online application form.
Should you require a reasonable adjustment to our recruitment process please email recruitment@merseycare.nhs.uk to ensure that measures can be put in place to support you.
The Trust expects all post holders who require an enhanced DBS for their role subscribe to the DBS Update Service. You will be required to enrol for this service for a fee of £16 per year and maintain registration.
Flexible working requests will be considered for all roles.
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